Health Affairs

Editor’s Note: Anthem Blue Cross of California, the largest health insurance company in California, recently announced plans to increase insurance premiums by as much as 39 percent for people insured in their non-group health insurance plans. There are two competing narratives about this dramatic and unprecedented premium increase, wrote Jonathan Kolstad and Neeraj Sood in a... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: The post below by Jonathan Kolstad and Neeraj Sood prompted a comment from Jeff Lemieux, who directs the Policy and Research Center at America’s Health Insurance Plans, a health insurance industry group. See “Individual Market Premium Increases: The Debate Continues” for a response by Kolstad and Sood to Lemieux’s comment. Anthem Blue Cross... Read the rest of this entry »